GemologyOnline.com
https://www.gemologyonline.com/Forum/phpBB2/

$1000 portable device for counterfeit drug detection
https://www.gemologyonline.com/Forum/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?f=58&t=18085
Page 1 of 1

Author:  NTE [ Thu Apr 25, 2013 10:07 am ]
Post subject:  $1000 portable device for counterfeit drug detection

New story today about a $1000 portable Raman device for counterfeit drug detection developed by the FDA. If this is suitable for field use in Africa for anti-malarials, I expect this could work for gemology in the field. Your tax dollars at work :).

http://www.latimes.com/health/boostershots/la-sci-fda-counterfeit-detection-device-20130424,0,1133472.story

http://www.securingindustry.com/pharmaceuticals/fda-goes-its-own-way-with-counterfeit-detection-device/s40/a1405/

Author:  mikko [ Thu Apr 25, 2013 10:32 am ]
Post subject:  Re: $1000 portable Raman device for counterfeit drug detecti

It looks like very nice product, photographing fluorescence reactions of materials illuminated with multiple wavelengths. Yes, it may have some really cool use in gemology, but it is not a Raman.

Author:  G4Lab [ Thu Apr 25, 2013 5:01 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: $1000 portable device for counterfeit drug detection

It's closer to deBeers DiamondView. But of does not use such short wave illumination. (Diamond View <230nm, very difficult and expensive illumination to produce)

anti Malarial drugs are very fluorescent. The original , quinine sulfate is used as a fluorescence standard for the testing of fluorescence spectrophotometers. Though largely replace by Rhodamine 6G in more recent history.

Page 1 of 1 All times are UTC - 4 hours
Powered by phpBB © 2000, 2002, 2005, 2007 phpBB Group
http://www.phpbb.com/